Who are the opponents in Kumārila’s Ślokavārttika (henceforth ŚV), chapter on sentence-meaning? And did the ŚV set the standard for all further discussions on the topic?
163d Philosophers’ Carnival
The Indian Philosophy Blog has hosted the Philosophers’ Carnival for this month. You can read there and here my selection of this month’s philosophical blogs:
Is Vyāḍi meant when Jayanta refers to “exclusion”?
Is Jayanta referring to Vyāḍi when he lists various positions at the beginning of his discussion about the sentence-meaning, in his Nyāyamñjarī, book 5?
Visiting Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
The Department of Religion at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure-track position in Buddhist Studies during the 2014-2015 academic year. The position will be in a one-year, non-renewable contract.
Who invented the apoha theory? On Kunjunni Raja 1986 SECOND UPDATE
Who invented the apoha theory? If you, like me, are prone to answer “Dignāga” and to add that Dignāga (as shown by Hattori) was inspired by Bhartṛhari’s theory and that Dharmakīrti and Dharmottara later fine-tuned Dignāga’s one, you are ready to have your view challenged by K. Kunjunni Raja’s article in Buddhist Logic and Epistemology (ed. by B.K. Matilal and R.D. Evans, 1986, I am grateful to Sudipta Munsi who sent me a copy of it).
Using expressions like “it seems unlikely” or “I am not convinced” without specifying the reason for their use is a bane of historical research writing. Unfortunately this practice, which can mislead a reader into thinking that a counter-argument has been made when in fact no argument has been made, is not rare in Indology. The ultimate import of expressions of the specified kind is usually “I, the researcher, am not willing to change my view, even if your argument is sound” or “I, the researcher, am not going to be so adventurous as to differ from the majority or mainstream view, even when the erroneous nature of that view has been exposed”.
Ashok Aklujkar
Authorship of the Saṅkarṣa-kāṇḍa, in Devadattīyam (Bern: Fritz Lang, 2012), 193--194
Authorship of the Saṅkarṣa-kāṇḍa, in Devadattīyam (Bern: Fritz Lang, 2012), 193--194
Taking leave from Helmut Krasser
On Friday the 11th of April, a ceremony to take leave from Helmut took place in Vienna.
Sucarita Miśra on apoha —On Kataoka 2014a
Who is the most productive scholar on Indian Philosophy? Kei Kataoka is surely in the top-10 (have a look at his publications here).
IIGRS 6
One of the saddest things about getting older is that I can no longer take part of the annual IIGRS conferences!
The most amusing version of the Philosophers’ Carnival I know of! With a reference to Jonathan Edelmann’s piece on Theology and Philosophy in the Indian context which you can read here.